My favorite part of the Declaration of Independence is the middle part, the airing of grievances so to speak. It’s basically a laundry list of all the shitty tricks the GOP and teaparty have used to keep the federal government from getting anything done since Raygun. I have always loved that the founders were basically pissed because the Brits wouldn’t govern.
the preamble is just icing.
Dripping as it is may be with self-contradiction, it’s hard not to feel one’s heart leap up when reading old Tom’s Declaration:
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God* entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
* But wait a minute…”Laws of Nature and Nature’s God”? What kind of Deist (= atheist) bullshit is that?